One common in some wrestling boards is to post a picture of a promotions' booker looking smug, sometimes subtitled "Problem, IWC?" when insane booking decisions come up. Vince McMahon◊ and Vince Russo◊ are most common.

El Generico has retired from wrestling and is running an orphanage in Tijuana. Explanation The cover story for Generico's disappearance from the world of wrestling, and a frequently-used response to anybody who talks about Zayn and Generico being the same person.

Yeah, I don't know either, dude. Explanation This caption appears on many entries in Wrestle Crap when the previous caption ends with a question being set up. It is accompanied by a picture of Man Mountain Rock shrugging.

That's awesome on every conceivable level! Explanation The same gag as the Man Mountain Rock one mentioned above, only featuring a picture of Tiffany looking needlessly ecstatic.

Dennis Stamp wasn't booked!Explanation A Forced Meme created by the original WrestleCrap forums (now the Freaking Awesome Network forums), involving a clip from the 1999 wrestling documentary, Beyond The Mat.

Non-western example. The wrestler Hard Gay is memetic both in Japan and overseas. HOOOOOOOOOOOO~!

AWA

Baron von Raschke's "That is all the people need to know."

NWA

"IT'S STILL REAL TO ME DAMMIT~!" as bellowed by an tearful, overenthusiastic fan at an NWA press conference.

That guy is known as KongaDave, and he occasionally posts at the WrestleCrap forums.

Iceman King Parsons: "Like Mama says, it be's that way sometimes. MERCY!"

All Japan / New Japan

Anything to do with Kenta Kobashi and "burning," "chops," and/or "cancer." Especially him defeating his own cancer (in actuality a tumor which cost him his right kidney) with wrestling moves.

LARIATOOOOOOOOO!!!!!Explanation Chalk this up to a) the Gratuitous Engrish of Japanese puroresu announcers and b) their efforts to convey just how intense Kobashi's clotheslines are. This also applies to Stan Hansen's ridiculously stiff lariats.

"You better shut up or I'll make a woman out of your girl!" Usually said to someone in the audience sitting by a female.

Space Mountain may be the oldest ride in the park but it's still got the longest line!

"Leave thememories alone..."Explanation This song by Fuel, which was used during Ric Flair's retirement, became an unofficial theme song of releases and firings.

GO TO BED!Explanation A line taken out of context from Flair's victory speech. The full line is "Read what you wanna read, believe what you wanna believe, but go to bed every night of your life knowing that there is only ONE world heavyweight champion, and it's the NATURE BOY!" Used in a lot of YouTube Poops and YTPMVs.

*takes guitar shot* "Never drew a dime!"explanation Mike Graham said this of Jeff Jarrett in the Fall of WCW DVD, complaining that he "broke 6,000" guitars and never got over.

"That'll put a lot of butts in seats..."Explanation On the night of WCW's Fingerpoke Of Doom incident, announcer Tony Schiavone spoiled the results of Mick Foley's title match, sarcastically daring viewers to change the channel (at the behest of Eric Bischoff). They did, and it cost WCW dearly in the Monday Night Wars.

MICK FOLEY PUT MY ASS IN THIS SEAT Explanation Tony Schiavone's extremely smarmy comment about how former WCW wrestler Cactus Jack is going to win the title on RAW (RAW was a taped episode that week) and how "that'll put asses in the seats". It backfired. Horribly.

Besides being the trope namer for Garbage Wrestler, Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling also gave rise to the notion that Japanese tables were indestructible.note One of the oddest examples was when W*ING Kanemura jumped off a scaffold and the only thing that broke was one of the table's metal legs, suggesting it's Japanese wood that can't be broken.

JESUS! Explanation The most recognizable clip of audio from this video of CZW's John Zandig cutting a rather intense and indecipherable promo. Has become a regular gag in Botchamania, usually to introduce or used during CZW botches.

ROH

"WHAT YOU KNOW ABOUT SHRIMP COCKTAIL, HANH?" Explanation Prince Nana is true Ashanti royalty, and nobody interviewing him, much less watching in the audience, could relate to being able to have shrimp cocktail anytime they wanted as he could.

"What is [insert real name or similar ring name of a well-known wrestler who recently left WWE] doing in the Impact Zone?"

TNA Knockout Champion Taylor Wilde was so underpaid she works at Sunglasses Hut.

Death puns and TNA, and or demands that Sabu return to TNA with a new gimmick called Genocide, after Homicide "cashed in" his feast or fired briefcase on Suicide. TNA has since renamed Suicide Manik, perhaps to try and cut back on this.

Which is funny, since ECW billed Sabu as being "homicidal, genocidal, and suicidal."

Lil Kaval is the only reason for some TNAExplanation On an episode of WWE NXT, Kaval performed a rap which he finished by indirectly mentioning TNA.

You haven't seen my brother Chris? You know, (hand) Abyss!Explanation Abyss's current gimmick, which he appears as his supposed "brother", a lawyer, Joseph Park.

"Tag of the Waaah!!!" Explanation On the June 19th edition of TNA, MVP, in his willingness to abuse his power as Director of Wrestling Operations, botched his line in announcing a TNA World Tag Team Championship match between The Wolves and the team of Austin Aries and Samoa Joe.

HE'S NOT READY BROTHER DUDE JACK Explanation Following the disappointing ending to TNA's 2011 Bound For Glory where Bobby Roode lost his TNA title match against Kurt Angle despite a huge hype machine promoting Roode's rise to the top, a dirtsheet report came out claiming that Hulk Hogan personally changed the ending of the event because he personally felt Roode wasn't ready to be a star. Angry smarks turned it into the preceding quote, with it jokingly applied to up and coming stars in wrestling, and older established stars conversely described as "ready".

Bobby Roode spitting. Explanation Bobby Roode has done some spitting during some of his promos when he's pissed.

Bobby Rooooooo!!!

LOLTNA Explanation Disparaging nickname for TNA, mostly used on /wooo/ during particularly embarrassing moments for the promotion.

"Did I use the tacks?"

Sixty days later, "What's Memetic Mutation: Professional Wrestling Fad Metamorphosis: Vocational Grappling doing in the iMPACT! Zone?"Explanation Refers to how most people who were fired from WWE jumped ship to TNA after the expiration of a "no-compete" clause. The wrestlers would usually take a Captain Ersatz of their WWE name due to copyright reasons.

One week later, Memetic Mutation: Professional WrestlingFad Metamorphisis: Vocational Grappling: *insert gratuitous anti-WWE rant here*Explanation TNA has a de facto rule stating that, upon hiring, you must take a shot at the WWE, whether if it's deserved or not.

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